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Subject: Re: Athlon 64 or Intel P4 3.2 EE: which ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:38:27 12/09/03

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On December 08, 2003 at 19:07:09, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 08, 2003 at 16:25:49, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 2003 at 14:32:15, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>On December 08, 2003 at 13:08:41, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 12:55:36, Leen Ammeraal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I saw the Athlon 64 based
>>>>>"PC Vobis Power 64 3200+ XD" (euro 1299).
>>>>>
>>>>>How does this compare with an Intel P4 3.2 EE ?
>>>>>Which would you prefer for chess?
>>>>>Leen
>>>>
>>>>According to http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/CCAM/a64fx_51_launch.shtml, the
>>>>3.2EE would be faster.
>>>
>>>Shame they only tested (except for UT2k3) applications where the P4 does decent.
>>>As I said in a previous post.. where is DVD2AVI (where an Athlon does best for
>>>Mpeg encoding). It is much faster than XMpeg for me (on my XP). Also, in Povray
>>>(a renderer a normal person would use, rather than drop $4000 for one of the
>>>ones they use to test) the Athlon is a good 50%+ faster than the P4. In 64bit
>>>mode it is something like 3 times faster. The Athlon FX is even faster than the
>>>XP. Expecially for chess, which I believe what he was asking about in the first
>>>place.
>>
>>Guess which system is the fastest for Povray?
>>
>>http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.php
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eugene
>
>Holy..and that's the 1.0Ghz I2.  A sadly, a 1.4GHz I2 is only $500 more than a
>3.2EE.  :/
>
>Man, that 1.0Ghz I2 is smoking...


I've said that before.  It is _not_ a bad processor.  It's main problem is
that it is way "different".  Opteron is X86 instruction set on steroids.
Itanium is X86 instruction set on LSD.

:)



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